DMD 1.019 and 2.003 releases

[Derek Parnell]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:45:57 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Don Clugston wrote:
>> I'm having trouble understanding the difference between "isScalar", 
>> "isArithmetic", and "isIntegral". Is this table correct?
>> 
>> int uint real wchar
>> Y   Y    Y    N     isArithmetic
>> N   N    Y    N     isFloating
>> Y   Y    N    Y     isIntegral
>> Y   Y    Y    Y     isScalar
>> N   Y    N    N     isUnsigned
>> 
>> ----------------
> 
> wchar is arithmetic and unsigned.

Are you serious??? Why are we allowed to do mathematics with characters? 

    dchar r = power( 'a' * 'b' + 'd' * '€') / '$';

Doesn't make sense so why is wchar arithmetic?

If you insist in this wart, then we also need an 'isCharacter' trait to
distinguish characters from numbers.

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Derek Parnell
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